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Titan is the perfect benchmark for studying exoplanet atmospheres, study suggests
The NASA/ESA Cassini-Huygens mission explored Saturn and its moons from 2004 to 2017, providing the most detailed images and ...
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The Grand Finale: Cassini Spacecraft's Last Chapter Ended With a Suicidal Plunge Into Saturn
Right until its final moments, the spacecraft continued to send insightful images of 'The Ringed Planet.' The mission's ...
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Cassini's Saturn Mission Goes Out In A Blaze Of Glory
Cassini's Saturn Mission Goes Out In A Blaze Of Glory : The Two-Way The NASA probe that has spent the past 13 years making countless discoveries about the ringed planet and its moons was taken ...
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The Last Thing A NASA Spacecraft Saw Before Plunging Into Saturn
"This monochrome view is the last image taken by the imaging cameras on NASA's Cassini spacecraft," NASA explains of the ...
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Cassini was the mission of a lifetime for this NASA scientist. Now she must say goodbye. - The Denver Post
Spilker, in red, with members of the Voyager team in 1989. After 13 years at Saturn, it seemed only fitting to send the Cassini spacecraft out “in a blaze of glory,” said Spilker, now lead ...
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Cassini, the NASA spacecraft that expanded the search for life beyond Earth, dies in Saturn’s sky
Cassini, the NASA spacecraft whose breakthrough discoveries about Saturn and its many moons revolutionized the search for life beyond Earth, disintegrated Friday morning in the skies above the ...
Enceladus's highly alkaline subsurface ocean may affect search for life
What can the pH level of the subsurface ocean on Enceladus tell us about finding life there? This is what a recent study ...
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Cassini, NASA’s 13-year Saturn mission, has ended - CNN
On September 15, 2017, the 20-year Cassini mission ended in a "death dive" into Saturn's upper atmosphere, collecting data until the spacecraft broke apart and became part of the planet it set out ...
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"The Rings Held The Answer": How We Finally Figured Out Saturn's Day Length In 2019
Earlier research had found that the rings of Saturn respond to vibrations within the planet. Saturn's interior vibrates at frequencies that cause slight variations in its gravitational field, and the ...
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‘OK. Let’s do it!’ An oral history of how NASA’s Cassini mission to Saturn came to be - Los Angeles Times
The Cassini mission has been an unequivocal success — but its fate was not always certain. This is the story of how it got off the ground, told by the people who were there.
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Image of Saturn in Cassini spacecraft's 'final moments' isn't what it seems
NASA's Cassini spacecraft orbited Saturn for more than 10 years, capturing images of its rings and moons in never-before-seen detail. Since at least 2019, posts on social media have shared a ...
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Cassini was the mission of a lifetime for this NASA scientist. Now she must say goodbye.
After orbiting and capturing images of Saturn and its moons since 2004, Cassini’s mission will come to a close Friday with a plunge into the planet’s atmosphere, which will destroy the spacecraft.